MOD Bicester

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total cost to the public purse was of spending by MOD Bicester on third party logistics organisations in (a) 2008, (b) 2009, (c) 2010 and (d) 2011; and what proportion of such spending in each such year was allocated to (i) Palletings, (ii) Hacklings, (iii) Metcalfe Farms Haulage, (iv) Kenyons, (v) Reason Transport, (vi) Andover Transport, (vii) Pertemps agency drivers, (viii) City Sprint, (ix) other private hauliers and (x) other couriers.

Peter Luff: holding answer 26 April 2012
	The freight and courier contracts used by Logistic Commodities and Services Bicester to transport defence equipment are managed by Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) and are available for use by all Ministry of Defence (MOD) units. The cost of these contracts cannot be attributed to individual sites.
	The total expenditure incurred in financial years (FY) 2010-11 and 2011-12 against each enabling contract is shown in the following table:
	
		
			 £ million 
			 Contract FY 2010-11 FY 201142 
			 Freight contractors   
			 DSV 1.96 1.17 
			 Plantspeed 1.24 0.77 
			 DB Schenker 5.16 5.37 
			 Parcelforce 1.50 1.44 
			 Palletways 1.99 2.86 
			 Sheldon and Clayton 0.06 0.30 
			 Charles Gee 0.68 0.43 
			 Severn Vale 0.46 0,60 
			 Wincanton 1.26 1.10 
			 NYK Logistics 0.44 0.22 
			 DHL 12.39 15.14 
			 Eddie Stobart 0.32 0.25 
			 GA Newsome 0.15 0.29 
			 CTS 1.32 1.11 
			 CitySprint (London) 0.02 0.02 
			 Ridgeway International 0.95 1.45 
			    
			 Courier contractors   
			 CitySprint 2.53 1.82 
			 Total 32.43 34.34 
		
	
	The total expenditure incurred for the use of Pertemps agency drivers by MOD Bicester in FYs 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 is shown in the following table:
	
		
			 £ million 
			 Contract FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 
			 Pertemps 1.24 1.63 0.91 
		
	
	For those elements of this question for which we have not provided information, it has not proved possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

Prisoners: E-mail

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which prisons participate in the email a prisoner scheme; what checks are in place at such prisons to monitor such emails; and what estimate he has made of the number of contacts through the scheme each prisoner has had in each of the last three years.

Crispin Blunt: There are currently 119 prisons using the services of Emailaprisoner.com and these are spread widely across the prison estate—Annex A shows a full list of the participating prisons.
	The system does not allow prisoners or their correspondents to directly exchange e-mails, it is merely an alternative way for a prisoner’s family or friends to send an ‘electronic’ letter (e-mail) to the prison as opposed to the normal postal service. The ‘e-mail letter’ is printed by staff and then passed to the prisoner and therefore monitored in the same way as postal correspondence.
	It is not possible to provide an estimate of the number of contacts through the scheme each prisoner has had in the last three years as such information is not held centrally. To provide such an estimate would require the collection of data from each prison and this could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.
	Annex A
	Emailaprisoner.com is operating in the following establishments:
	Altcourse
	Ashfield
	Askham Grange
	Bedford
	Birmingham
	Blantyre House
	Blundeston
	Brinsford
	Bristol
	Bronzefield
	Buckley Hall
	Bullingdon
	Bullwood Hall
	Bure
	Canterbury
	Chelmsford
	Coldingley
	Dartmoor
	Deerbolt
	Doncaster
	Dorchester
	Dovegate
	Dover
	Downview
	Drake Hall
	Durham
	East Sutton Park
	Eastwood Park
	Erlestoke
	Everthorpe
	Exeter
	Featherstone
	Feltham
	Ford
	Foston Hall
	Frankland
	Full Sutton
	Garth
	Gartree
	Glen Parva
	Grendon
	Guys Marsh
	Hatfield
	Haverigg
	Hewell
	Highpoint
	Hindley
	Holloway Hull
	Huntercombe
	Isis
	Isle of Wight Cluster (Albany, Camp Hill and Parkhurst)
	Kennet
	Kingston
	Kirkham
	Kirklevington Grange
	Lancaster Farms
	Leeds
	Leicester
	Lewes
	Leyhill
	Lincoln
	Lindholme
	Littlehey
	Liverpool
	Long Lartin
	Low Newton
	Lowdham Grange
	Maidstone
	Manchester
	Moorland
	Morton Hall
	New Hall
	North Sea Camp
	Northallerton
	Northumberland
	Nottingham
	Onley
	Parc
	Pentonville
	Peterborough
	Portland
	Prescoed
	Preston
	Ranby
	Reading
	Risley
	Rochester
	Rye Hill
	Send
	Sheppey Cluster (Elmley and Stanford Hill)
	Shepton Mallet
	Shrewsbury
	Spring Hill
	Stafford
	Stocken
	Stoke Heath
	Styal
	Sudbury
	Swansea
	The Mount
	Thorn Cross
	Usk
	Verne
	Wandsworth
	Warren Hill
	Wayland
	Wealstun
	Wellingborough
	Wetherby
	Whatton
	Whitemoor
	Winchester
	Wolds
	Woodhill
	Wormwood Scrubs
	Wymott

Green Deal Scheme

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many officials in his Department were working on the (a) Green Deal and (b) Energy Company Obligation on (i) 1 May 2010, (ii) 1 November 2010, (iii) 1 May 2011, (iv) 1 November 2011 and (v) 1 April 2012.

Gregory Barker: In May 2010 the focus was on Household Energy Efficiency when approximately 49 officials worked on the policy. After the election that policy was re-focused on a new longer term programme, the Green Deal.
	From November 2010 to present day the figures are in the following table, broken down in the two areas:
	
		
			  Household Energy Efficiency ECO Green Deal 
			 May 2010 48 — — 
			 November 2010 — 5 46 
			 May 2011 — 5 49 
			 November 2011 — 8 55 
		
	
	
		
			 April 2012 — 10 56 
		
	
	The Green Deal and ECO policy teams also draw in support from officials across Department on, for example DECC lawyers, economists, scientists and statisticians.